February 8, 2012, 9:54 am
AE Basics - A Creative COW series for new users of Adobe After Effects. Lesson 34: In this tutorial, Andrew Devis shows how to quickly select and change your font selection and modify its look and feel with the Faux options in the character panel.

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November 21, 2018, 1:17 pm
Back in 2014, composer-songwriter Marc Shaiman came across a vinyl copy of the “Mary Poppins” soundtrack album and created a Facebook video of himself dropping the needle onto the record, then sitting back in ecstasy. He called his video “Heaven.”

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November 21, 2018, 1:17 pm
Two floating timecode windows are new with the 10.4.4 update to Apple Final Cut Pro X. One displays source timecode and the other displays project timecode. Both work exclusively with projects that are open in the Timeline.

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November 21, 2018, 1:17 pm
More than five years ago, while finishing the Academy Award-winning “12 Years a Slave, ” director Steve McQueen told editor Joe Walker about a different project he had in mind: an adaptation of the hit ’80s British television drama “Widows” from crime writer Lynda La Plante.

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November 21, 2018, 10:24 am
Hans Zimmer has “a strange history” with “Widows.” Early in his career he worked for composer Stanley Myers, including on the 1983 BBC miniseries that would inspire the 2018 film. “I remember thinking at the time this was a revolutionary bit of storytelling,” he recalls. It concerned “the sort of casual brutality women have to endure on a daily basis.” He felt the series could “change the way we treat women,” so when Steve McQueen approached him about scoring this reimagining, he leapt at the opportunity because “things had not gotten better.” Watch our exclusive video interview above.

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November 21, 2018, 6:08 am
Adobe Premiere Pro is a ginormously massive piece of editing software that has a plethora of powerful tools, both big and small. Even if you're a seasoned user, you may not know all of the tiny little ways in which you can speed up your workflow, perform tasks with a single press of a keyboard key, and avoid all of those unforeseen mishaps that can drive you utterly insane.

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November 21, 2018, 6:08 am
Fred Patten, noted writer and historian, whose encyclopedic memory and passion for knowledge crisscrossed fandom worlds of animation, science fiction, anime, manga and furries, passed away November 12. He was 77. Though wheelchair bound since a 2005 stroke, Fred nevertheless stayed current in his collecting and research, reviewing books, films and shows up until the time of his passing.

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November 20, 2018, 10:01 am
The Sennheiser Memory Mic is a “wireless” mic/body recorder that auto-synchronizes audio that it records with the companion app that can shoot video. In fact, the device hardware is much better than the first version of the companion app for both Android and iOS, so Sennheiser will hopefully add the missing features to the apps. Then it could become the dream solution for today’s producers who want to to produce a Candid Camera type show. Allen Funt first created the Candid project for radio as The Candid Microphone in 1947, before launching the Candid Camera TV show in 1948. Ahead you’ll hear and watch Sennheiser Memory Mic audio/video recordings and learn what’s missing (and wrong) from the first version of the software.

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November 20, 2018, 10:00 am
Dan Bethell began his career in 2001 at MPC. He works in many studios such as Rising Sun Pictures, Iloura and Method Studios. He worked on films like BATMAN BEGINS, TERMINATOR SALVATION, SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING and THOR: RAGNAROK.

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November 20, 2018, 5:48 am
Masking is one of the fundamentals of video editing, but masks used in isolation have a lot of drawbacks and limitations. The most efficient way to improve the quality of any mask is by using hue, saturation, and luminance qualifiers.